Revision as of 17:40, 1 July 2006

Web sites

Booklists & Book Awards
Check here for all of YALSA's Selected Lists of recommended reading, listening and viewing for teens and for information about the winners of the Michael Printz Award for excellence in YA lit, the Margaret Edwards Award for lifetime contribution to YA lit and the Alex Award for the best adult books for teens.

Libraries and Teen Advisory Groups
This is a collection of web sites related to teen advisory groups. There is also a page called "Even for the Faint of Heart: Getting Teens to Participate in a Teen Advisory Group", updated regularly.

See YA Around
A database full of ideas for planning more than two dozen library programs for teens, from pizza taste-offs to teen poetry nights, plus forms, handouts, and summer reading themes.

Teen Tech Week
The web site for resources and information about YALSA's newest initiatve aimed at getting teens to use libraries for their nonprint resources and to recognize librarians as trusted information professionals.

Teen Read Week
The web site for resources and information about YALSA's national adolescent literacy initiative, Teen Read Week.

Young Adult Librarians' Homepage
A collection of more than 170 helpful links for teen librarians. From the site: "The YA Librarians' Homepage (formerly known as the Young Adult Librarian's Help/Homepage) is designed to gather resources on and off the Web to help librarians serving teens."